Roman Rabinovich

Rabinovich has earned critical praise for his explorations of the piano music of Haydn. At the 2018 Bath Festival, he presented a 10-recital 42-sonata series, earning praise in The Sunday Times. Prior to that, in 2016 as artist in Residence at the Lammermuir Festival in Scotland, he performed 25 Haydn sonatas in 5 days, and over two seasons, in 2016 and 2017, he performed all Haydn’s sonatas in Tel Aviv. 2018-19 sees the start of Rabinovich’s recording project of the complete sonatas on First Hand Records, with the first volume released in October 2018.

The 2017-18 season saw Rabinovich’s critically acclaimed concerto debut with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra and Sir Roger Norrington, as well as debuts with the NFM Leopoldinum and Szczecin Philharmonic in Europe, and the Sarasota Orchestra and Anu Tali, and The Sinfonia Boca Raton and James Judd in the US. He also returned to the Wigmore Hall twice, both for a solo recital and with violinist Liza Ferschtman, and made his recital debuts for Washington Performing Arts and the Janáček May International Music Festival. Chamber music partnerships in 2017-18 included Liza Ferschtman, Tessa Lark and the Ying Quartet. In the 2018-19 season, Rabinovich will be making concerto appearances with the Israel Symphony Orchestra, the Des Moines Symphony and the Orquestra Sinfónica do Porto Casa da Música. Recitals include a return to the Wigmore Hall, the Liszt Academy Festival, Houston Society for Performing Arts and the Philip Lorenz Piano Series in Fresno, and as a chamber musician he will appear with Liza Ferschtman in, among others, the Concertgebouw Amsterdam, the Baden-Baden Festspielhaus and the Beethoven-Haus Bonn.

Roman Rabinovich made his Israel Philharmonic debut under the baton of Zubin Mehta at age 10. He was a top prizewinner at the 12th Arthur Rubinstein International Piano Master Competition in 2008, while in 2015, he was selected by Sir András Schiff as one of three pianists for the inaugural “Building Bridges” series, created to highlight young pianists of unusual promise.

Born in Tashkent, Rabinovich immigrated to Israel with his family in 1994, beginning his studies there with Irena Vishnevitsky and Arie Vardi; he went on to graduate from the Curtis Institute of Music as a student of Seymour Lipkin, and earned his Master’s Degree at the Juilliard School where he studied with Robert McDonald.

• • J.S. Bach:

  Concerto in D minor BWV 1052
  Concerto in F minor, BWV 1056

  • Bartok:

  Concerto No. 2, Sz..95, BB101

  • Beethoven:

  Concerto No 1, in C major op 15
  Concerto No 2, in B flat major op 19
  Concerto No 3, in c minor op37
  Concerto No 4, in G major op58
  Concerto No 5, in E flat major op73
  Choral Fantasy, op80

  • Brahms:

  Concerto No 1, in D minor op15

  • Chopin:

  Concerto No 1, in E minor op11
  Concerto No 2 in F minor op21
  Fantasy on Polish airs, op13

  • Dvorak:

  Piano Concerto in G minor, op33

  • Franck:

  Symphonic Variations, M 46

  • Grieg:

  Concerto in A minor op16

  • Haydn:

  Concerto in D major

  • Liszt:

  Concerto No 1, in E flat major
  Concerto No 2, in A major

  • Mendelssohn:

  Double concerto for violin and piano in D minor
  Concerto No 1, in G minor op 25
  Concerto No 2, in D minor op 40
  Concerto in A minor, MWV O2

  • Mozart:

  Concerto in B flat major K 238
  Concerto in E flat major K 271 “Jeunehomme”
  Concerto in A major K.414
  Concerto in F major K.459
  Concerto in D minor K.466
  Concerto in C major K 467
  Concerto in E flat minor K.482
  Concerto in A major K.488
  Concerto in C minor K.491
  Concerto in C major K 503
  Concerto in B flat major K.595

  • Prokofiev:

  Concerto No 1, in D-flat major op10
  Concerto No 2, in G minor op16
  Concerto No 3, in C major op26
  Concerto No 5, G major op55

  • Rachmaninov:

  Concerto No 2, in C minor op18
  Concerto No 3, in D minor op30
  Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, Op. 43

  • Saint-Saens:

  Concerto No 2, in G minor op22
  Concerto No 5 in F major, op103

  • Schumann:

  Concerto in A minor, op.54
  Introduction and Allego Appasionato op.92

  • Shchedrin:

  Concerto No 2

  • Shostakovich:

  Concerto No 1, in C minor for piano, trumpet and orchestra op35
  Concerto No.2 in F major, op102

  • Stravinsky:

  Concerto for Piano and Wind Instruments
  Capriccio for Piano and Orchestra

  • Tchaikovsky:

  Concerto No 1, in B flat minor
  Concerto No 2, in G major op44

  • Yusupov:

  Concerto “Intimo” 2007